New Orleans rebuilds with a heart

New Orleans rebuilds with a heart

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Reveal date
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Posing as the "deputy assistant to the undersecretary" of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Yes Men appear alongside New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to announce a dramatic break from Ray Nagin's policy, driven by large private developers, of tearing down perfectly good public housing after Katrina. Additionally, Andy announces, Shell will spend $7 billion repairing the wetlands that once protected New Orleans from hurricanes, but that the oil industry slowly destroyed over decades. Watch this scene as it appeared in our second film.